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Looking at the family budget
True to its character, an over excited PML-N government chose to focus on the positives, underplaying the negatives.
Afshan Subohi
Businesses face diverse emotions
Many leading local business groups were calm … second tier companies were nervous while for the struggling third tier
Sindh races to complete development projects
Sindh hopes to complete one-fifth of all ongoing development projects by the turn of the current fiscal year in June.
Pakistan's lurking unemployment problem
Be it CPEC, industrial, commercial or any other policy or project, government tends to ignore the employment dimension.
Jobs at stake
Be it CPEC, industrial, commercial or any other policy or project, government tends to ignore the employment dimension.
Rhetoric beats action in the political arena
Many believe that the political leadership suppresses unemployment issue as it understands the enormity of the problem.
Reinsurance: outflow of funds abroad
Pakistan is losing 95pc of insurance premium funds to reinsurance entities overseas.
Looking at CPEC costs amid hype
For each Chinese national inducted in a job, 150 Pakistanis will be employed.
Environmental opportunity cost
The business community, administration and environment protection establishments have not shown any interest in dealing
Microfinance: cutting costs
The trend is to opt for technological portals for processing, monitoring and efficiently managing microcredit programmes
Can this new model enable change?
The government seem keen to pool resources to mend and extend it with the help of the private sector.
EAC’s intellectual capital
‘The performance scorecard of the EAC is not satisfactory. It never guided policymaking’
CPEC: Looking a gift horse in the mouth
“There is nothing opaque, all project details are available online.”
How much is too much for the banking regulator?
“A distinction should be made between the use and abuse of market. Yes, easier said than done.”
Move to moderate imports
The cash margin requirements are imposed for a short period to accommodate the import of essential products.
Exploring service quality regulation
The absence of standardisation in quality of service/pricing has lead to a chaotic, expanding market.
‘Fright syndrome’ hits dollar holdings
Citizens took preference of commercial banks for new dollar bills as a signal of old ones going out of circulation.
The best and worst paid jobs
The income gap between the top and bottom tier employees in the private sector is very wide.
Business in a Trumpili world
In this special report, Dawn team reaches out to stakeholders for their views on what lies ahead and opinions on a
Whither the jobs?
The country lacks the capacity to absorb two million youth entering the already swarming job market every year.